Top 1200 Ordinary Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being, He only did those things which pleased the Father. In everything, He stayed true, heartbeat to heartbeat, with the Father's desires. Jesus lived for God alone; God was enough for Him. Thus, even in its simplicity and moment-to-moment faithfulness, Christ's life was an unending fragrance, a perfect offering of incomparable love to God.

If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I thought I'd be a theoretical physicist because I love physicists' views of the world - I find general relativity and quantum theory thrilling - but I have always felt uneasy with the idea of an Ultimate Truth. One of the functions of science is to help us instrumentally; it helps us to build things like microchips and GPS satellites. But another function of science in the modern world is to help us feel "at home in the universe".

That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the ordinary.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

I use ordinary soap bubbles, the dime-store stuff, two wands and a plastic straw.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.